October 6, 2006

Since the end of July, I´ve had the pleasure to become a member of a Yahoo community called "Learning with computers". Last week, I asked if anyone could help me add a powerpoint presentation to a blog of mine and to my surprise lots of wonderful members came to my aid with ideas of how I could do that. First, as suggested by a member I tried taking screenshots of my presentation in order to attach it to bubbleshare but the pictures didn´t come out so well because of reflex (is that the right word in English?). Then I tried uploading my file to www.elgg.net and I guess it worked. Here is the link to a presentation created for our TTC at Cultura Inglesa, based on the workshop given by Ron Martinez at Braz-tesol Brasília, July 2006. Hope you like it.

All these ideas were taken from Ron Martinez's book : "Como dizer tudo em inglês / Avançado".

I´d like to share another presentation with you.This time using slideshare. These are sentences taken from the book called "Language hungry" and I normally use individual slides to start class. The objective is to offer students something interesting to think about and in English.Another ppt presentation: FOOD FOR THOUGHT

August 18, 2006

I´ve just inserted the slideshow at the top of this blog. Hurray!These pictures were taken during a teacher´s get-together. We,teachers from Cultura Inglesa Uberlandia, get together regularly at a teacher´s house to chat and eat! Luiz Pedro always finds a reason for gathering everyone, and we sure enjoy ourselves.

CLICK HERECheck out the cartoon I´ve made to present EVER, JUST and ALREADY to a group of students. This site is fantastic and I believe everyone would enjoy it. It´s a wonderful feeling to know you can co-create something.

July 26, 2006

Many learners and teachers do their best in avoiding mistakes, when in fact we should like and welcome them. By analysing students´ mistakes teachers can observe how learning is taking place and this way through feedback help students reformulate their trials.

These are sentences taken from the book "Language Hungry" by Tim Murphey which can make us think about this topic:

"Mistakes are actually wonderful things; they can even help the learning process."

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I'm Ana Maria Menezes. An EFL teacher, teacher developer and online moderator. An enthusiastic blogger and curious researcher. M.A. in Linguistic Studies with special interest in teacher development in online environments.